Seat-standard for wagons



(No Model.) B. PEA-000K. SEAT STANDARD FOR WAGONS. No. 434,158. PatentedAug. 12, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

BENJAMIN PEACOCK, OF BIG BEND, WISCONSIN.

SEAT-STAN DARD FOR WAGON S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,158, dated August12, 1890.

Application filed June 9, 1890- Serial No. 354,827. '(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN PEACOCK, of Big Bend, in the county of\Vaukesha and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Adjustable Devices forSuppoi-ting WVagon-Seats, of whichthe following is a description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device that is especially adapted for use inconnection with farm-wagons or such as have a box having vertical sides,to which my device is adjustably secured.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved device as seenat one side of the wagon, which shows the end of the seat supportedthereon. Fig. 2 is a view from the rear of one part of my. device, theside of the box to which the device is adj ustably secured being shownin cross-section and other parts of the device being broken away to showin terior construction. Fig. 3 is a detail of the plate that is affi'xedto the side of the wagonbox, and which serves as a guide and support forthe vertically-moving leg of the device.

In the drawings, A is the side of a box for the wagon, being such as isin common use on farm-wagons. It must be understood that with everywagon-box there are two such sides, and that my device includes twovertically movable and adjustable legsone secured adj ustably to theoutside of each sideboard A of the wagon-boxwhich two legs togethersupport the seat, one being under each end of the seat, though only oneof the legs is shown in the drawings. The verticallymovable leg B isprovided with a cross-head C, on which are fixed elliptical springs D,and thereon is placed the seat E.

The leg B is constructed with rabbeted or grooved inner corners, and ametal plate F is aflixed to the inner side of the leg throughout itslength, which has about the same lat eral width as the width of theprincipal part of the leg, thus forming channels or grooves G G, one ineach edge of the leg throughout its entire length.

A metal plate H is secured permanently to the side A of the box,which isprovided with plate H, and engage the plate, thereby supporting the legand its load. The latch K is provided with a lever-handle N, audits freeend is held yieldingly outwardly to its work by a spring 0, inserted inthe leg behind the latch and bearing against it.

It will be understood that the leg may be raised in the plate H, andthat the latch K v by reason of the inclined form of its upper outeredge will be forced away from the plate H, so as to pass upwardlyagainst it, and will downwardly engage the plate in the slots M Mautomatically, but that when the leg is to be lowered the latch must beswung away from the plate by and through force applied to the handle N,by which means it may be held away from the plate H while the leg islowered to such distance as is desired. It will also be understood thatthis mechanism is duplicated on the other side of the wagon beneath theother end of the wagon-seat, and that the two legs of the device shouldbe raised or lowered correspondingly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a wagon-box and plates thereto aifixed on theoutside, which plates are provided with guides for controlling thevertical movements of legs attached to the seat and with recesses forreceiving and engaginglatches,of seat-legs movable vertically andarranged to travel in and be guided by the plates on the sides of thewagon-box, 4

and swinging latches pivoted in the legs and adapted to engage theplates, substantially as described.

2. In an adjustable Wagon-seat, the combination of a supporting-leghaving longitudinal grooves in its lateral edges, of a plate aflixed tothe wagon-box having lugs arranged to enter the grooves in the leg, andslots or recesses in its inner face, and aswinging latch pivoted in theleg and adapted to I the leg travels, which latch is provided withengage the recesses in the plate, which latch is provided with a handleand a spring to hold it yieldingly to its work, substantially asdescribed.

3. Ina wagon-seat having a leg movable vertically in a plate aflixed tothe side of a Wagon-box, a latch pivoted in the leg, the free end ofwhich latch projects beyond the inner face of the leg and is adapted toengage a recess in the plate on the wagon-box in which a handleprojecting laterally at one side of the leg, and a spring inserted inthe leg behind the latch and adapted to hold it yieldingly to its work,substantially as described. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN PEACOCK. \Vitnesscs:

S. B. SMITH, KATE SMITH.

